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Academy Award nominee to walk the red carpet in Halifax

A Hollywood actress will be in Halifax this week to attend the opening gala night at the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival and begin shooting a new movie.

Jacki Weaver — who was twice nominated for an Academy Award for her performances in Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook — will walk the red carpet Thursday night with talent from the festival’s opening film Splinters directed by Halifax-based Thom Fitzgerald.

Jacki Weaver, shown here with Mel Gibson at the 2014 G'Day USA Los Angeles Black Tie Gala from 2014, is coming to Halifax to shoot a new movie and will be on the red carpet for the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival opening-night gala. (Mark Sullivan / Getty Images)

While Weaver isn’t in Splinters, she’s slated to star in another Fitzgerald-directed movie.

She’ll play the lead role in Stage Mother, which is about a Texas Baptist choirmaster who inherits her estranged son’s San Francisco drag bar. Much of the filming will take place in Halifax.

The film has also cast Lucy Liu of Ally McBeal,Kill Bill and Charlie’s Angels fame.

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